Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
That is true though.
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That is kids in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s, not the 1990’s
“All your base are belong to us” is from the like '92
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
From Know Your Meme:
“All Your Base Are Belong to Us” is a popular engrish catchphrase that grew popular across the internet as early as in 1998. An awkward translation of “all of your bases are now under our control”, the quote originally appeared in the opening dialogue of Zero Wing, a 16-bit shoot’em up game released in 1989. Marked by poor grammar, the “All Your Base” phrase and the dialogue scene went viral on popular discussion forums in 2000, spawning thousands of image macros and flash animations featuring the slogan both on the web and in real life.
The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1992 port of the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing, released on the SEGA Mega Drive.
So, the saying DOES come from 1992, but the internet meme formation did not happen until 1998.
I was wrong of when that meme started, but I do remember the meme when I was playing ROBLOX in 2008. Also, memes use to last a lot longer then they do now as well. But thank you for correctly correcting me 👍
Yeah… I’m that old man on the porch yelling about how you kids read about that shit, but I lived through it. Of course there wasn’t a meme of it in 1992 because 56 kbps was considered blazing fast internet. You could literally watch an image being drawn line by line in your web browser. Our main form of social media back then was a fucking mixtape.
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Memes weren’t a thing in 92. Or their rough equivalent certainly weren’t called memes.
No but there was ASCII art and image macros. They just didn’t really have a name.
Before 2003ish, they were called “fads”! At least on YTMND, and SA.
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No we had kids yelling bits from the jerky boys, adam sandler nonsense, and ceaselessly yelling lines from movies, often times ones they hadn’t even seen, but some line became what we would call a meme today.
I am not saying social media hasn’t had a negative impact on kids, but slop entertainment isn’t the big problem. Also all of the big issues of social media are just one aspect of things that have been moving in this direction for decades now.
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
Yeah, that one made me want to scratch my eyes out, after a while.
Our copy of doom had a handwritten label
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Too young to remember all the 90s kids acting like Beavis and Butthead on the bus? Too young to remember hearing people yell beefcake in the hall and being toxic as all fuck because the South Park episode they saw the night before? Did you not have a kid at your school seriously injure themselves doing something on Jackass?
How about get the fuck off my lawn.
back in my day, our shitheads were cultured shitheads!
No, I can assure you they were just shitheads. Just a different flavor of shithead.
My mom spent the 90s hating all those things. Dead on.
This stuff has got to be actual kids self-mythologising rather than adults not remembering how dumb they were as kids, shirley?
He’s just point out the comp of best vs. worst vs worst vs. worst like it should be to make a real point.
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That’s entirely accurate from what little I have personally seen.
Yeah, when I bit the bullet and watched it to see what the fuzz is about I was very surprised how competent it is.
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Erm… You might be confusing millennials with Gen Z or something. I was 19 when annoying orange first showed up, and I’m on the younger end of millennials. Me and my friends found it pretty obnoxious.
Depending on who you ask, millennial ends around 1996. Annoying orange came around in 2009, when that portion of the ‘generation’ would be 13 years old.
I was 13 and I found it pretty obnoxious.
Same. I also found Fred annoying, which I think started around 2006. YouTube itself wasn’t a thing before 2005.
So millenials started watching YouTube around high school/college age. That’s also when faster internet started to become widespread, so you wouldn’t be getting young kids watching YouTube until much later because young parents were unlikely to be paying a premium for high speed internet. Older kids and college students tend to have less patience for stupid brain rot than younger kids, which was why things like Charlie the Unicorn and Llamas w/ Hats became somewhat popular among those age groups.
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Lots of stuff back then that was obnoxious, Fred has got to be my number 1. That’s exactly as annoying as whatever is the fad now if not worse.
It makes a generation feel special if they are convinced that they are enduring something extraordinary. Every single generation has had plenty to complain about but the loudest will be the current generation of course.
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UK kids in the early 2000s also had “Dick and Dom in da Bungalow”. Basically two comedians doing funny shit to entertain kids for hours every Saturday morning. They had a game called “Bogies” which was just about the two of them going to a calm place like a library or a restaurant and seeing who could muster the courage to shout “bogies” the loudest. Honestly, it’s pretty funny, but it justly caused a lot of outrage as well as kids were emulating it all over.
Example: https://youtu.be/vt_farHgMfM
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Um okay. No need for the hostility.
The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That’s what happened.
Lack of old-fashioned parenting
Parents trying to influence their children positively now compete with billion-dollar-corporations and enemy nation states that have a direct feed line into their kid’s mind.
And if you don’t allow your kids a phone they’ll be socially isolated.
It’s not nearly as hard as it sounds, kids will adapt readily to parental involvement in their lives, and good parents share digital activities with their kids like playing online games together as well as taking them out to enjoy real life. I know a couple dads who play games with their kids every night, their older kids are close to the parents, they go out and do adventures all the time.
The problem is that many parents are also locked into the feeds from billion-dollar corporations and enemy nations.
Most people would want to break this cycle if they had half a brain and had the mental language skills to reason through their life issues and goals, but almost a quarter of adults in the US are functionally illiterate.
How can we possibly expect parents to provide guidance and hands-on understanding of what’s going on in their kid’s world when they can barely read anything more complicated than a shopping list or text? Not that many teens are better off, the same issue impacts many young people who may need special education to become more literate but face too much social pressure to even admit they’re having a hard time with learning and reading.
There are a lot of problems with the modern family unit that could be solved much more easily and with fewer resources than most of our other societal issues, with active work and conscious effort to make guidelines in a family for better outcomes, but that’s also the environment where it’s just as easy to scroll and forget your problems.
And if you don’t allow your kids a phone they’ll be socially isolated.
That is a crock of shit and an excuse used by lazy parents.
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I can’t read that word without thinking about Phoenix Wright anymore.
Poor Ms. Oldbag.
I started playing with my partner recently. We’re each voice acting the characters. It’s been a wonderful experience! Just about at the end of the first game, I think we’re at the end of the final trial. I hope the second and third games are as good as the first!
I remember being a child back then. Every little girl knew unix.
And specifically SGI UNIX, right?
Of course; what other filthy variant would children learn? /s
>kid in a movie written by adults: “I am a distinguished reader of scientific literature”
>kid I made up in my own mind: “hurr durr I’m illiterate”
Idunno dude, seems like maybe the one writing the dialogue for the “kids in the 2020s” is the problem
Isn’t the kid reading his book remarkable in the movie? Like, Dr. Grant’s whole deal with these kids is realizing not all kids™ are bad, and this is the first denial of his expectations?
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Generations! People in the 90s talking about how dumb the 80s stuff was is the best way. The dumb belongs to the decade, not the people.
Exactly! Here are a few I remember from the late-90s, early 2000s:
- Da Bomb dot com
- Fly
- Home Skillet
- Not!/Psych!
- Sup?/wazzap? - friends transformed to “wassabiii”
- crunk
- bad
- biotch
- served/owned - served is dead, but “owned” lives on as “pwned”
- chillax
- fo shizzle
- holla
Most of that is probably unintelligible to kids these days, and most were all the rage when I was a kid. I say literally none of that today.
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Das rite, you da real G. Keep it real, home skillet.
They watched Jurassic Park and learned what happens to kids who read books.
They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don’t.
Every generation needs to distance itself from their progenitors in some original manner, language is the easiest to adapt.
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Correction: People think that playing outside became too dangerous, but all kinds of crime stats are down since the 90s. Social norms changed to make people think there is more danger due to all the post-911 fear propaganda.
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This. It doesn’t help that that perception is universal, and mfs will call Child Protective Services if you let your kids go to the park on their own.
And best hope you’re not a minority when they come knocking.
Don’t forget the satanic panic of the 80’s!
Pretty sure that both kids’ characters in that movie were intentionally written to not be average of children that age at the time
Like most kids in movies.
Otherwise, no one would watch movies with kids.
Like most characters in movies, even.
Kids in the 2010s: We are standing up to demand an end to the pollution so that we can have a future
Meanwhile, their Grandmas in the 2010s: Kids these days are too woke, they never play outside. I hate that Greasy Thunberg or whatever she calls herself, so preachy. No-one walks anywhere any more it’s so sad. This Facebook user I love posts AI pictures of kittens and says immigrants are eating our pets and universities are run by Muslim terrorists. I saw some kids outside the other day and was terrified so we’re getting the city to close the park and get rid of the bus shelters. All music sounds the same these days like it’s made in a factory, not like the real music we had - kids these days don’t even know what Motown is.
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Fuck it, I’ll take all the “riz”, “no cap”, “frfr” bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.
That’s a hella dope position
Rad, even.
Outta sight.
You mean you aren’t into wazaaaaaap, piglatin, roflmao, the R word, cool beans, home skillet, etc?
It is funny how the wheel of slang makes the prior generation uncomfortable for some reason. Time waits for no one.
That’s on fleek
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That’s one fly comment my man
Fo shizzle
Forsooth
Perchance.
Bet
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